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2) Go West
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With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
3) Hickok
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In hopes of escaping his past as gunslinger and outlaw, “Wild Bill” Hickok has drifted to Abilene, Kansas to start a new life as town marshal. His efforts are challenged when saloon owner Poe attempts to destroy him and the town he calls home.
4) Shane
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Acclaimed director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made Shane one of the classics of the American cinema. The story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). In fighting the last decisive battle, SHANE sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody...
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Set in a mining town in the 1880s, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD is based on the classic novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn with a screenplay by award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace (Tribal Justice). Upon its release in 1990, the film won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold...
10) The Westerner
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Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders. **Academy Award** winner.
11) Daughter of Dawn
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After disappearing for nearly a century, THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN returns to once again break boundaries for Native American cinema. An all-Indigenous cast directed by Norbert Myles tell the story of a love triangle amidst rising conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages, featuring thrilling fight scenes, dance performances and more. Newly restored in 2K by the Oklahoma Historical Society, this subtly acted, beautifully conducted silent melodrama remains...
12) Montana Story
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From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (WHAT MAISIE KNEW, THE DEEP END) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
13) 49-17
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49-17 is a charming and suspenseful western parody about a millionaire who hires a Wild West theatrical troupe to relive his past as a miner forty niner. Every sacred western cow is turned on its ear: the patriarchal representative of the law, the Young Man, the Gambler, the saloon brawl, and the Woman.
14) The Last Movie
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Directed by and starring **Oscar**-nominated filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, THE LAST MOVIE follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, the baleful stuntman Kansas (Hopper) remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re- enactment...
15) Warlock
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A famous gunman becomes the marshal of WARLOCK to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods.
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Set in remote Colorado in 1893, TWO PLAINS & A FANCY follows three tourists: a Dandy Watercolorist, a Mystic/Reformed Confidence Woman, and a Lady Geologist from France, looking for the perfect geothermal hot spring spa. Over three nights and four days, the tourists trek deeper and deeper into the plains, deserts and mountains. And it’s somewhere between a classic Western travelogue and a really epic day at the mall. Official Selection at the BFI...
17) The Keeping Room
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In this radically reimagined Western, three southern women encounter two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence.
18) Black Pioneer
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A film about a Southern slave who trekked thousands of miles and rose to become a Western hero.
19) Rio Grande
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In this John Ford classic, John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other. Lt. Col. Yorke (John Wayne) leads his cavalry troops to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. Yorke’s toughest battle lies ahead when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war, he must fight not only to save his family, but also to redeem his honor.
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From Robert Parrish, the director of *The Wonderful Country* and *The Destructors* comes this top-notch western set during the Mexican Revolution. An ex-soldier turned priest, shares a brutal town with a bandit and his bloodthirsty gang of sadistic killers. A widow named Alvira hauntingly dressed in black arrives in town on a hearse, accompanied in search of her husband's killer. Also arriving in town is a small platoon of soldiers and their Colonel,...
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